:''Also:
1979'' by
Smashing Pumpkins.
Year '1979' ('
MCMLXXIX') was a
common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979
Gregorian calendar).
Events of 1979
January
★
January 1 -
United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the "
International Year of the Child". Many musicians donate to the "
Music for UNICEF Concert" fund.
★
January 1 - The
United States and the
People's Republic of China establish full
diplomatic relations.
★
January 4 - Afif Mohammed Anwar Kagdi was born on this day.
★
January 4 - The State of
Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of the dead and injured in the
Kent State shootings.
★
January 7 -
Vietnam and Vietnam-backed
Cambodian
insurgents announce the fall of
Phnom Penh,
Cambodia, and the collapse of the
Pol Pot regime. Pol Pot and the
Khmer Rouge retreat west to an area along the
Thai border.
★
January 8 - The French tanker ''
Betelgeuse'' explodes at the Gulf Oil terminal at
Bantry in
Ireland; 50 are killed.
★
January 9 - The
Music for UNICEF Concert is held at the
United Nations General Assembly to raise money for
UNICEF and promote the Year of the Child. It is broadcast the following day in the
United States and around the world. Hosted by
The Bee Gees, other performers include
Donna Summer,
ABBA,
Rod Stewart and
Earth, Wind & Fire. A soundtrack album was released.
★
January 16 - The
Shah of Iran flees
Iran with his family, relocating to
Egypt after a year of turmoil.
★
January 19 - Former U.S. Attorney General
John N. Mitchell is released on
parole after 19 months at a federal prison in Alabama.
★
January 21 - The
Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the
Dallas Cowboys 35-31 in
Super Bowl XIII played at the
Orange Bowl in
Miami,
Florida.
★
January 29 -
Brenda Ann Spencer opens fire at a school in
San Diego, California, killing 2 teachers and wounding 8 students.
★
January 31 - The police under directions of
Jyoti Basu, Chief Minister of
CPM led govt of
West Bengal, surrounds and opens fire on unarmed refugee settlement of
Morichjhapi island in
Sunderbans,
West Bengal,
India. Hundreds killed but govt officially accepted 36 deaths.
February
★
February 1 - Convicted bank robber
Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by U.S. President
Jimmy Carter.
★
February 2 -
Sid Vicious, the famous bass player of the
Sex Pistols, dies of a
heroin overdose.
★
February 1 -
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to
Tehran,
Iran after nearly 15 years of
exile.
★
February 3 - Khomeini creates the Council of the
Islamic Revolution.
★
February 7 - Supporters of Khomeini take over the Iranian law enforcement, courts and government administration; the final session of the Iranian
National Consultative Assembly is held.
★
February 7 -
Pluto moves inside
Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was known to science.
★
February 10-
February 11 - The Iranian army mutinies and joins the Islamic Revolution.
★
February 11 -
Khomeini seizes power in Iran.
★
February 12 - Prime Minister
Hissène Habré starts the
battle of N'Djamena in an attempt to overthrow
Chad's President
Félix Malloum.
★
February 13 - The intense
February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western
Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the
Hood Canal Bridge.
★
February 14 - In
Kabul,
Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to
Afghanistan,
Adolph Dubs, who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
★
February 14 - Following her 1972
sex reassignment surgery, musician
Wendy Carlos legally changes her name from Walter. She later reveals this information in an interview in the May 1979 issue of ''
Playboy'' Magazine. Incidently on this day her future partner
Andrew Aitken was born a hermaphrodite. He also went on to have sex reassignment surgery and they married as husband and wife.
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★
February 15 - A suspected gas explosion rocks a bank in
Warsaw killing 49.
★
February 17 - The
People's Republic of China invades northern
Vietnam, launching the
Sino-Vietnamese War.
★
February 18 - The
Sahara Desert experiences
snow for 30 minutes.
★
February 22 -
Saint Lucia becomes independent of the
United Kingdom.
★
February 26 - A total solar
eclipse arcs over northern
Canada, and a partial solar
eclipse is visible over almost all of
North America and
Central America.
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March
★
March 1 -
Scotland votes narrowly for home rule, which is not implemented, and
Wales votes against it.
★
March 4 - The U.S.
Voyager I spaceprobe photos reveal
Jupiter's rings.
★
March 5 -
Voyager I makes its closest approach to
Jupiter at 172,000 miles.
★
March 5 - Largest
Magnetar, or
Soft gamma repeater, event recorded.
★
March 13 -
Maurice Bishop leads a successful coup in
Grenada.
★
March 14 - In
China, a
Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near
Beijing, killing at least 200.
★
March 17 - The
Penmanshiel Tunnel in the UK collapses, killing two workers.
★
March 25 - The first fully functional
space shuttle orbiter,
''Columbia'', is delivered to the
John F. Kennedy Space Center, to be prepared for its first launch.
★
March 26 - In a ceremony at the
White House, President
Anwar Sadat of
Egypt and Prime Minister
Menachem Begin of
Israel sign a peace treaty.
★
March 28 - A
nuclear power plant accident at
Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, releases radiation.
★
March 28 - In
Britain,
Jim Callaghan's government loses a
motion of confidence by 1 vote, forcing a general election.
★
March 29 -
Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, the 6th
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia, dies in office. He is replaced by
Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Mustain Billah ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Abu Bakar Riayatuddin Al-Muadzam Shah,
Sultan of
Pahang.
★
March 30 -
Airey Neave, World War Two veteran and Conservative
Northern Ireland spokesman, is killed by an
Irish National Liberation Army bomb in the
British House of Commons car park.
★
March 31 - The
Royal Navy withdraws from
Malta.
★
March 31 -
Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
★
March 31 - Gali Atari and Milk and Honey win the
Eurovision Song Contest 1979 for
Israel, with the song ''
Hallelujah''.
April
★
April 1 -
Iran's government becomes an
Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the
Shah officially.
★
April 1-
April 18 - Police lock
Andreas Mihavecz in a holding cell in
Bregenz,
Austria, and forget him there without food or drink.
★
April 1-
Nickelodeon Television Channel, a children's
cartoon channel, launches as
The Pinwheel Network.
★
April 2 -
Sverdlovsk Anthrax leak: A
Soviet biowarfare laboratory at
Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne
anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of
livestock.
★
April 4 - President
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of
Pakistan is executed.
★
April 8 - Alexi Laiho from Children of Bodom is born.
★
April 10 - A tornado hits
Wichita Falls, Texas, killing 42 people (the most notable of 26 that hit that day).
★
April 11 -
Tanzanian troops take
Kampala, the capital of
Uganda;
Idi Amin flees.
★
April 17 - Schoolchildren in the
Central African Empire are arrested (and around 100 killed) for protesting against compulsory
school uniforms. An African judicial commission later determines that Emperor
Jean-Bédel Bokassa "almost certainly" took part in the massacre.
★
April 20 -
President Jimmy Carter is
attacked by a swamp rabbit while
fishing in his hometown
Plains, Georgia.
★
April 23 - Fighting in London between the
Anti-Nazi League and the
Metropolitan Police's
Special Patrol Group results in the death of protestor
Blair Peach.
★
April 25 -
Bart Simpson's birthday (a fictional character made by
Matt Groening).
May
★
May 1 -
Greenland gets
home rule.
★
May 4 -
Conservatives win the
British general election;
Margaret Thatcher becomes the new prime minister.
★
May 8 - The
Manchester,
England Woolworth's in city centre is seriously damaged by fire; 10 shoppers die.
★
May 9 -
Unabomber bomb injures
Northwestern University graduate student John Harris.
★
May 10 - The
Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.
★
May 25 -
American Airlines Flight 191: In
Chicago, a
DC-10 crashes during takeoff at
O'Hare International Airport, killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.
★
May 25 -
John Spenkelink executed in
Florida. First usage of
electric chair in USA after the reintroduction of
death penalty in
1976.
★
May 27 -
Indianapolis 500:
Rick Mears wins the race for the first time, and the second time for car owner
Roger Penske.
June
★
June 1 -
Vizianagaram district is formed in
Andhra Pradesh,
India.
★
June 1 - The first black-led government of
Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, in succession to
Ian Smith and under his power-sharing deal.
★
June 1 - The
Seattle Supersonics won the NBA Championship against the
Washington Bullets.
★
June 2 -
Pope John Paul II visits his native
Poland, becoming the first
Pope to visit a
Communist country.
★
June 3 - A blowout at the
Ixtoc I oil well in the southern
Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons, making it the largest unintentional
oil spill ever.
★
June 3 -
General elections are held in
Italy.
★
June 4 -
Joe Clark becomes
Canada's 16th and youngest Prime Minister.
★
June 4 -
Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in
Ghana after military
coup in which
General Akuffo is overthrown.
★
June 12 -
Bryan Allen flies the man-powered
Gossamer Albatross across the
English Channel.
★
June 18 -
Jimmy Carter and
Leonid Brezhnev sign the
SALT II agreement in
Vienna.
★
June 20 - A
Nicaraguan National Guard soldier kills
ABC TV news correspondent
Bill Stewart and his interpreter Juan Espinosa. Other members of the news crew capture the killing on tape.
★
June 23 -
Sydney:
New South Wales Premier
Neville Wran officially opens the
Eastern Suburbs Railway. It operates as a shuttle between Central & Bondi Junction until full integration with the Illawarra Line during
1980.
★
June 25 -
Belgium:
Supreme Allied Commander Alexander Haig escapes an assassination attempt by the
Baader-Meinhof terrorist organization.
July
★
July 2 - The
Susan B. Anthony dollar is introduced in the U.S.
★
July 3 - U.S. President
Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
★
July 8 -
Los Angeles passes its
homosexual rights bill.
★
July 9 - A car bomb destroys a
Renault owned by "Nazi hunters"
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in
France. A note purportedly from
ODESSA claims responsibility.
★
July 11 -
NASA's first orbiting space station ''
Skylab'' begins its return to
Earth, after being in orbit for 6 years and 2 months.
★
July 12 -
Kiribati declares independence from the
United Kingdom.
★
July 12 - A "
Disco Demolition Night" publicity stunt goes awry at
Comiskey Park, forcing the
Chicago White Sox to
forfeit their game against the
Detroit Tigers.
★
July 12 -
Carmine Galante, boss of the
Bonanno crime family, is assassinated.
★
July 12 - A fire at a
hotel in
Saragossa,
Spain leaves 72 dead. Worst hotel fire in
Europe in decades.
★
July 16 -
Iraqi President
Hasan al-Bakr resigns and Vice President
Saddam Hussein replaces him.
★
July 17 -
Nicaraguan president General
Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to
Miami, Florida.
★
July 19 -
Maritza Sayalero of
Venezuela wins Miss Universe, stage collapses after contestants and news photographers rushed to the throne of the new Miss Universe..
★
July 19 - The
Marxist Sandinistas take control of
Nicaragua.
★
July 19 -
Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo becomes prime minister of
Portugal.
★
July 24 - The
Soviet Union exchanges Gerald Brook for spies Peter and Helen Kroger with the
United Kingdom.
★
July 31 - Four hundred
Iranian pilgrims are killed after clashes with
Saudi security forces in
Mecca.
August
★
August 4 -
Led Zeppelin play their first concert in two years at
Knebworth Park in
England, their first show there in four years. A second show would be played a week later which would prove to be their final
UK concert.
★
August 5 - The
Polisario Front signs a peace treaty with
Mauritania.
★
August 9 - The first British
nudist beach is established in
Brighton.
★
August 9 -
Raymond Washington, known for founding the
Crips, today one of the largest, most notorious gangs in the
United States, was shot and killed five months following his arrest for quadruple murder. (His killers have not yet been identified.)
★
August 10 - Michael Jackson releases his first breakthrough album ''
Off The Wall''. It sold 7 million copies in the
United States alone, making it a 7x platinum album.
★
August 14 - A freak storm during the
Fastnet Race results in the death of 15 sailors.
★
August 22 -
Led Zeppelin releases their album ''
In Through The Out Door''.
★
August 27 -
Lord Mountbatten and 3 others are assassinated by the
Provisional Irish Republican Army. He was a British admiral, statesman and an uncle of
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. On the same day, the
Warrenpoint ambush occurs,
Provisional Irish Republican Army members attack a British Convoy at Narrow Water,
County Down, killing 18 British soldiers.
September
★
September 1 - The U.S. ''
Pioneer 11'' becomes the first spacecraft to visit
Saturn, when it passes the
planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
★
September 7 - The
Chrysler Corporation asks the
United States government for $1 billion to avoid
bankruptcy.
★
September 7 -
ESPN starts broadcasting.
★
September 12 -
Hurricane Frederic makes landfall at 10:00 p.m. on Alabama's Gulf Coast.
★
September 16 - Two families flee from
East Germany by balloon.
★
September 20 - French
paratroopers help
David Dacko to overthrow
Bokassa in the
Central African Republic.
★
September 22 - The
South Atlantic Flash is observed near
Bouvet Island, thought to be a
nuclear weapons test.
★
September 29 - Equatoguinean dictator
Francisco Macías Nguema is executed by Moroccan hired men.
★
September 30 - The
Hong Kong MTR begins service with the opening of its
Modified Initial System (aka Kwun Tong Line).
October
★
October 1 -
Nigeria terminates military rule, and the
Nigerian Second Republic is established.
★
October 1-
October 6 - Pope
John Paul II visits the
United States.
★
October 2-
Bob Marley's album "Survival" is released.
★
October 9 -
Peter Brock wins the
Bathurst 1000 by a record 6 laps, with a lap record on the last lap.
★
October 14 - A major
gay rights march in the
United States takes place in
Washington, DC, involving many tens of thousands of people.
★
October 15 -
Black Monday events, in which members of a political group sack a newspaper office, unfold in Malta.
★
October 16 - A
tsunami in
Nice,
France kills 23 people.
★
October 26 - South Korean president
Park Chung Hee is killed by KCIA head
Kim Jaekyu.
★
October 27 -
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains independence.
November
★
November 1 -
Iran hostage crisis:
Iranian Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini urges his people to demonstrate on
November 4 and to expand attacks on
United States and
Israeli interests.
★
November 2 - French police shoot gangster
Jacques Mesrine in
Paris.
★
November 3 - In
Greensboro, North Carolina, 5 members of the
Communist Workers Party are shot to death and 7 are wounded by a group of
Klansmen and
neo-Nazis, during a "Death to the Klan" rally.
★
November 4 -
Iran hostage crisis begins: 3,000
Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in
Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the
United States send the former
Shah back to
Iran to stand trial.
★
November 5 - The radio news program ''
Morning Edition'' premieres on
National Public Radio.
★
November 6 - At
Montevideo,
Uruguay, the
International Olympic Committee adopts a resolution, whereby
Taiwan Olympic and sports teams will participate with the name
Chinese Taipei in future
Olympics Games and international sports tournaments and championships.
★
November 7 - U.S. Senator
Edward Moore Kennedy announces that he will challenge President
Jimmy Carter for the 1980
Democratic presidential nomination.
★
November 12 -
Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in
Tehran, U.S. President
Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all
oil imports into the
United States from
Iran.
★
November 14 -
Iran hostage crisis: U.S. President
Jimmy Carter issues
Executive Order 12170, freezing all
Iranian assets in the
United States and U.S. banks in response to the hostage crisis.
★
November 16 -
Bucharest Metro Line One is opened, in
Bucharest,
Romania (from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea stations, 8.63 km).
★
November 17 -
Iran hostage crisis:
Iranian leader
Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and
African American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in
Tehran.
★
November 20 - A group of
terrorists of around 200 militants
occupy Mecca's
Grand Mosque. They are driven out by French commandos (allowed into the city under these special circumstances despite their being non-Muslims) after bloody fighting that leaves 250 people dead and 600 wounded.
★
November 21 - After false radio reports from the
Ayatollah Khomeini that the
Americans had
occupied the
Grand Mosque in
Mecca, the
United States Embassy in
Islamabad,
Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing 4. (see:
Foreign relations of Pakistan)
★
November 23 - In
Dublin,
Ireland,
Irish Republican Army member
Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of
Lord Mountbatten.
★
November 28 -
Mount Erebus disaster: an
Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into
Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.
December
★
December 3 - Eleven fans are killed during a stampede for seats before
The Who concert at the Riverfront Coliseum (now known as the
U.S. Bank Arena) in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
★
December 4 - The Hastie fire in
Kingston upon Hull,
England, leads to the deaths of 3 boys and begins the hunt for
Bruce George Peter Lee, the UK's most prolific killer.
★
December 5 -
Jack Lynch resigns as
Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland; he is succeeded by
Charles Haughey.
★
December 6 - The world premiere for '' is held at the
Smithsonian Institute in
Washington DC.
★
December 21 - A
ceasefire for
Rhodesia is signed at
London.
★
December 24 - The
Soviet Union invades
Afghanistan.
★
December 24 - The first European
Ariane rocket is launched.
★
December 26 - In
Rhodesia, 96 Patriotic Front guerrillas enter the capital
Salisbury to monitor a ceasefire that begins
December 28.
★
December 27 - The Soviet Union seizes control of
Afghanistan, and
Babrak Karmal replaces overthrown and executed President
Hafizullah Amin.
Undated
★
China becomes the first nation in the world to register 1 billion people in its population. Conversely, the
One Child Policy is implemented in China in this year.
★
VisiCalc becomes the first
commercial spreadsheet program.
★
Guardian Angels civilian patrol group forms in
New York City.
★
Sprengel Museum opens in
Hanover,
Germany.
★
Windsor Tower was built in
Madrid,
Spain.
★ The first
usenet experiments were conducted by
Tom Truscott and
Jim Ellis of
Duke University.
Ongoing
★ The
1979 energy crisis occurred throughout this year, in the wake of the
Iranian Revolution.
★
Cold War.
Births
January-February
★
January 1 -
Brody Dalle, Australian punk rock singer
★
January 1 -
Koichi Domoto, Japanese entertainer (
Kinki Kids)
★
January 2 -
Morena Baccarin,
Italo-Brazilian actress
★
January 3 -
Francesco Bellissimo, Italian mangaka
★
January 6 -
Bernice Liu, Hong Kong actress
★
January 9 -
Joshua Harto, American actor
★
January 11 -
Siti Nurhaliza, Malaysian singer
★
January 12 -
Marián Hossa, Slovak ice hockey player
★
January 12 -
Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
★
January 16 -
Aaliyah, American singer (d.
2001)
★
January 17 -
Sharon Chan, Hong Kong actress
★
January 18 -
Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer and producer
★
January 18 -
Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
★
January 20 -
Rob Bourdon, American drummer (
Linkin Park)
★
January 20 -
Asaka Kubo, Japanese gravure idol of 20th Century
★
January 21 -
Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby union player
★
January 23 -
Larry Hughes, American basketball player
★
January 24 -
Tatyana Ali, American actress
★
January 27 -
Rosamund Pike, British actress
★
February 1 -
Julie Augustyniak, American soccer player
★
February 7 -
Cerina Vincent, American actress
★
February 9 -
Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress and model
★
February 9 -
Mena Suvari, American actress
★
February 9 -
Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater
★
February 11 -
Brandy Norwood, American singer
★
February 12 -
Jesse Spencer, Australian actor
★
February 15 -
Gordon Shedden, Scottish race car driver
★
February 16 -
Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer
★
February 19 -
Mariana Ochoa, Mexican singer and actress
★
February 21 -
Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress and singer
★
February 21 -
Carlito, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
★
February 22 -
Patrick Merrill, Canadian lacrosse player
★
February 24 -
Claire Cooper, British actress
March-April
★
March 4 -
Ben Fouhy, New Zealand flatwater canoeist
★
March 4 -
Geoff Huegill, Australian swimmer
★
March 4 -
John Lawler (John Fratelli), Scottish singer (
The Fratellis)
★
March 5 -
Flick Shagwell, British porn actress
★
March 6 -
Erik Bedard, Canadian pitcher
★
March 8 -
Tom Chaplin, British singer (
Keane)
★
March 9 -
Melina Perez, American professional wrestler
★
March 11 -
Benji Madden and
Joel Madden, twins from
Good Charlotte
★
March 12 -
Pete Doherty, British singer and guitarist (
The Libertines and
Babyshambles)
★
March 14 -
Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
★
March 17 -
Samoa Joe, Pro wrestler
★
March 30 -
Norah Jones, American musician
★
April 4 -
Heath Ledger, Australian actor
★
April 8 -
Alexi Laiho, Finnish guitarist (
Children of Bodom)
★
April 10 -
Rachel Corrie, American activist (d.
2003)
★
April 10 -
Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese entertainer (
Kinki Kids)
★
April 10 -
Sophie Ellis-Bextor, British singer
★
April 11 -
Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player
★
April 12 -
Claire Danes, American actress
★
April 12 -
Jennifer Morrison, American actress
★
April 14 -
Pierre Roland, Indonesian actor
★
April 17 -
Michael Treanor, American actor
★
April 18 -
Vahid Rahbani, Iranian director
★
April 18 -
Michael Bradley, American basketball player
★
April 19 -
Kate Hudson, American actress
★
April 19 -
Antoaneta Stefanova, Bulgarian chess player
★
April 22 -
Daniel Johns, Australian musician (
Silverchair)
★
April 23 -
Lauri Ylönen, Finnish singer (
The Rasmus)
★
April 27 -
Travis Meeks, American musician (
Days of the New)
★
April 27 -
William Boyd, American musician
May-June
★
May 1 -
Mauro Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
★
May 2 -
Jason Chimera, Canadian ice hockey player
★
May 2 -
Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (d.
2003)
★
May 4 -
Wes Butters, British broadcaster
★
May 5 -
Bipasha Basu, Indian actress and model
★
May 6 -
Kerry Ellis, English actress
★
May 9 -
Rosario Dawson, American actress
★
May 9 -
Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician
★
May 12 -
Adrian Serioux, Canadian footballer
★
May 13 -
Carl Philip, Prince of
Sweden
★
May 18 -
Mariusz Lewandowski, Polish footballer
★
May 21 -
Briana Banks, German-American porn star
★
May 22 -
Maggie Q, American actress
★
May 23 -
Alex Hanner, American bitter waiter
★
May 24 -
Tracy McGrady, American basketball player
★
May 25 -
Jonny Wilkinson, British rugby union player
★
May 26 -
Ashley Massaro, American professional wrestler and model
★
May 29 -
Casey Sheehan, American soldier (Son of anti-war activist
Cindy Sheehan) (d.
2004)
★
May 30 -
Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
★
June 5 -
Pete Wentz, American bassist and lyricist (
Fall Out Boy)
★
June 6 -
Shanda Sharer, murder victim (d.
1992)
★
June 8 -
Pete Orr, Canadian baseball player
★
June 12 -
Wil Horneff, American actor
★
June 13 -
Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player
★
June 16 -
Ari Hest, American singer-songwriter
★
June 18 -
Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese
seiyu (voice actress)
★
June 19 -
John Duddy, Irish boxer
★
June 23 -
LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
★
June 24 -
Craig Shergold, British cancer patient
★
June 28 -
Randy McMichael, American football player
★
June 29 -
Barış Akarsu, Turkish rock musician (d.
2007)
★
June 29 -
Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
★
June 30 -
Rick Gonzalez, Hispanic-American actor
July-August
★
July 3 -
Ludivine Sagnier, French model and actress
★
July 4 -
J. R. VanHoose, American basketball player
★
July 5 -
Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
★
July 5 -
Shane Filan, Westlife
★
July 9 -
Ella Koon, Hong Kong actress
★
July 15 -
Travis Fimmel, Australian fashion model and actor
★
July 18 -
Rick Baxter, American politician
★
July 18 -
Jermaine Paul, American musician
★
July 21 -
David Carr, American football player
★
July 24 -
Stat Quo, American rapper
★
July 26 -
Johnson Beharry, British recipient of the
Victoria Cross
★
July 26 -
Tamyra Gray, American singer
★
July 26 -
Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
★
July 27 -
Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer
★
July 27 -
Shannon Moore, American professional wrestler
★
July 30 -
Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish professional golfer
★
July 30 -
Ian Watkins, lead singer of the band
Lostprophets
★
August 3 -
Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress
★
August 5 -
David Healy, Northern Irish footballer
★
August 8 -
Azumi Kawashima, Japanese idol and AV idol
★
August 10 -
Joanna Garcia, American actress
★
August 10 -
Ted Geoghegan, American screenwriter
★
August 11 -
Bubba Crosby, American baseball player
★
August 13 -
Taizō Sugimura, Japanese politician
★
August 16 -
Sarah Balabagan, Filipina prisoner and singer
★
August 18 -
Selena Silver, pornographic actress
★
August 19 -
Oumar Kondé, Swiss footballer
★
August 24 -
Elva Hsiao, Taiwanese singer
★
August 26 -
Jamal Lewis, American football player
★
August 28 -
Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
★
August 28 -
Yuki Maeda, Japanese singer
★
August 29 -
Ali Eftekhari, Iranian scientist
★
August 30 -
Tavia Yeung, Hong Kong actress
★
August 30 -
Niki Chow, Hong Kong actress
★
August 30 -
Leon Lopez, British actor
★
August 31 -
Mickie James, American professional wrestler
September-October
★
September 2 -
Ron Ng, Hong Kong actor
★
September 4 -
Maxim Afinogenov, Russian ice hockey player
★
September 6 -
Ned Collette, Australian singer and musician
★
September 8 -
Pink, American singer
★
September 13 -
Ivan Miljković, Serbian volleyball player
★
September 14 -
Stuart Fielden, English rugby league player
★
September 15 -
Amy Davidson, American actress
★
September 17 -
Akin Ayodele, American football player
★
September 18 -
Alison Lohman, American actress
★
September 19 -
Noémie Lenoir, French supermodel
★
September 20 -
David Long , American author
★
September 24 -
Erin Chambers, American actress
★
September 28 -
Bam Margera, American skateboarder
★
October 1 -
Rudi Johnson, American football player
★
October 1 -
Marko Stanojevic, English-born Italian rugby player
★
October 3 -
John Hennigan, American professional wrestler
★
October 3 -
Daniel Hollie, American professional wrestler
★
October 7 -
Susan Eldridge, American supermodel
★
October 9 -
Brandon Routh, American actor
★
October 10 -
Mya, American singer and actress
★
October 11 -
Gabe Saporta, singer
★
October 13 -
Ryan Malcolm, Canadian singer
★
October 14 -
Stacy Keibler, American professional wrestler
★
October 16 -
Erin Brown, actress
★
October 17 -
Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
★
October 20 -
John Krasinski, American actor
★
October 20 -
Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player
★
October 23 -
Jorge Solis, Mexican professional boxer
★
October 28 -
Martin Skoula, Czech ice hockey player
★
October 30 -
Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress
November-December
★
November 1 -
Coco Crisp, American baseball player
★
November 4 -
Audrey Hollander, American pornographic actress
★
November 6 -
Lamar Odom, American basketball player
★
November 6 -
Myolie Wu, Hong Kong actress
★
November 7 -
Jon Peter Lewis, American singer and songwriter
★
November 8 -
Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
★
November 12 -
Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress
★
November 13 -
Ron Artest, American basketball player
★
November 14 -
Mavie Hörbiger, German actress
★
November 17 -
Matthew Spring, English footballer
★
November 20 -
Ericson Alexander Molano, Colombian gospel singer
★
November 21 -
Kim Dong Wan, South Korean singer and actor
★
November 22 -
Mohammad Tanzeel-ul-siddiqi al-husaini, Pakistani author
★
November 22 -
Chris Doran, Irish singer
★
November 23 -
Kelly Brook, English actress/model
★
November 27 -
Ricky Carmichael, American Motocross Champion
★
November 28 -
Jamie Korab, Canadian curler
★
November 28 -
Hakeem Seriki, a.k.a.
Chamillionaire, American rapper
★
November 29 -
Jayceon Taylor, a.k.a.
The Game, American rapper
★
December 3 -
Rainbow Sun Francks, Canadian actor and singer
★
December 3 -
Daniel Bedingfield, English pop singer and songwriter
★
December 5 -
Evonne Hsu, Taiwanese singer
★
December 7 -
Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress
★
December 8 -
Raymond Lam, Hong Kong actor
★
December 14 -
Michael Owen, English footballer
★
December 15 -
Adam Brody, American actor
★
December 17 -
William Green, American football player
★
December 18 -
Amy Grabow, American actress
★
December 23 -
Summer Altice, American model and actress
★
December 26 -
Chris Daughtry, American singer
★
December 27 -
Carson Palmer, American football player
★
December 28 -
James Blake, American tennis pro
★
December 29 -
Diego Luna, Mexican actor
★
December 30 -
Milana Terloeva, Chechen journalist and author
★
December 31 -
Elaine Cassidy, Irish actress
★
December 31 -
Bob Bryar, American drummer (
My Chemical Romance)
Deaths
January - March
★
January 3 -
Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b.
1887)
★
January 5 -
Charles Mingus, American musician (b.
1922)
★
January 5 -
Billy Bletcher, American actor (b.
1894)
★
January 8 -
Sara Carter, American bluegrass and country singer (b.
1898)
★
January 13 -
Donny Hathaway, American musician (b.
1945)
★
January 26 -
Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York,
Vice President of the United States (b.
1908)
★
February 2 -
Sid Vicious, English musician (
Sex Pistols) (drug overdose) (b.
1957)
★
February 2 -
Issa Pliyev, Soviet general (b.
1903)
★
February 7 -
Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (b.
1911)
★
February 9 -
Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1900)
★
February 12 -
Jean Renoir, French film director (b.
1894)
★
February 14 -
Reginald Maudling, British politician (b.
1917)
★
February 23 -
W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (b.
1900)
★
February 28 -
Mr. Ed, American talking horse (b.
1949)
★
March 1 -
Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi Kurdish politician (b.
1903)
★
March 19 -
Richard Beckinsale, British actor (b.
1947)
★
March 23 -
Ted Anderson, English footballer (b.
1911)
★
March 28 -
Emmett Kelly, American clown (b.
1898)
★
March 29 -
Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, King of Malaysia (b.
1917)
★
March 30 -
Airey Neave, British politician (assassinated) (b.
1916)
April - June
★
April 1 -
Barbara Luddy, American actor (b.
1908)
★
April 4 -
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto,
President and
Prime Minister of Pakistan (executed) (b.
1928)
★
April 4 -
Edgar Buchanan, American actor (b.
1903)
★
April 10 -
Nino Rota, Italian composer (b.
1911)
★
April 23 -
Blair Peach, New Zealand-born anti-Nazi campaigner (killed by police) (b.
1946)
★
April 23 -
Yana Gupta, Indian actress of Czech-orgin is born.
★
May 2 -
Giulio Natta, Italian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1903)
★
May 11 -
Lester Flatt, American bluegrass and folk singer (b.
1914)
★
May 11 -
Barbara Hutton, American socialite (b.
1912)
★
May 29 -
Mary Pickford, Canadian actress and studio founder (b.
1892)
★
June 1 -
Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1904)
★
June 4 -
Lazar Lagin, Soviet satirical and children's writer (b.
1903)
★
June 11 -
John Wayne, American actor (b.
1907)
★
June 17 -
Duffy Lewis, baseball player (b.
1888)
★
June 19 -
Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b.
1888)
★
June 21 -
Angus MacLise, American percussionist, composer, mystic, shaman, poet, occultist, calligrapher and original drummer for the
Velvet Underground (b.
1938)
★
June 25 -
Dave Fleischer, American animator (b.
1894)
★
June 29 -
Lowell George, American musician (
Little Feat) (b.
1945)
July - September
★
July 3 -
Louis Durey, French composer (b.
1888)
★
July 8 -
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1906)
★
July 8 -
Robert B. Woodward, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1917)
★
July 10 -
Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b.
1894)
★
July 12 -
Minnie Riperton, American singer (b.
1947)
★
July 16 -
Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b.
1912)
★
July 22 -
Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b.
1929)
★
July 29 -
Bill Todman, American game show producer (b.
1916)
★
August 2 -
Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician, founder of
APRA party (b.
1895)
★
August 2 -
Thurman Munson, baseball player (b.
1947)
★
August 3 -
Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1899)
★
August 6 -
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1911)
★
August 9 -
Walter O'Malley, baseball executive (b.
1903)
★
August 12 -
Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (b.
1906)
★
August 16 -
John Diefenbaker, Canadian Prime Minister (b.
1895)
★
August 17 -
Vivian Vance, American actress (b.
1909)
★
August 19 - Grand Rabbi
Joel Teitelbaum,
Satmarer Rebbe (b.
1887)
★
August 27 -
Earl Mountbatten, last British
Viceroy of India (assassinated) (b.
1900)
★
August 31 -
Sally Rand, American dancer (b.
1904)
★
September 5 -
Alberto di Jorio, former head of the
Vatican Bank and secretary of the
1958 conclave (b.
1884)
★
September 8 -
Jean Seberg, American actress (b.
1938)
★
September 10 -
Agostinho Neto, Angolan nationalist (b.
1922)
★
September 20 -
Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, King of Malaysia (b.
1907)
★
September 20 -
Ludvík Svoboda, president of
Czechoslovakia (b.
1895)
★
September 28 -
John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (b.
1921)
★
September 29 -
Francisco Macías Nguema, first president of
Equatorial Guinea
October - December
★
October 6 -
Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (b.
1911)
★
October 10 -
Dr Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b.
1931)
★
October 13 -
Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (b.
1886)
★
October 16 -
Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b.
1903)
★
October 22 -
Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (b.
1887)
★
October 26 -
Park Chung-hee,
President of South Korea (b.
1917)
★
October 30 -
Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer (b.
1887)
★
October 30 -
Donna Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of
Benito Mussolini (b.
1890)
★
November 1 -
Mamie Eisenhower,
First Lady of the United States (b.
1896)
★
November 17 -
Immanuel Velikovsky, author of "Worlds In Collision" and psychiatrist (b.
1895)
★
November 21 -
Paul Wexler, American actor (b.
1929)
★
November 29 -
Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b.
1901)
★
December 3 -
Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (b.
1905)
★
December 23 -
Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (b.
1898)
★
December 25 -
Jordi Bonet, Canadian artist (b.
1932)
★
December 27 -
Hafizullah Amin,
President of Afghanistan (b.
1929)
Unknown dates
★
Dave Line, British author
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Sheldon Lee Glashow,
Abdus Salam,
Steven Weinberg
★
Chemistry -
Herbert C. Brown,
Georg Wittig
★
Medicine -
Allan M. Cormack,
Godfrey N. Hounsfield
★
Literature -
Odysseas Elytis
★
Peace -
Mother Teresa
★
Economics -
Theodore Schultz,
Arthur Lewis
Templeton Prize
★
Rev. Nikkyo Niwano
Fictional
Film
★ Films set in 1979:
★
★ ''
The Warriors'' (1979)
★
★ ''
Friday the 13th'' (1980)
★
★ ''
The Godfather Part III'' (1990)
Television
★ Set in 1979:
★
★ ''
Doctor Who'' episode "
City of Death" (1979)
★
★ ''
Salem's Lot (1979 TV mini-series)''
Computer and video games
★ Set primarily in 1979: '' (announced 2006)
See also
★
20th century
Notes
External links
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